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Cables bandwidth

Raw

USB 2.0 is rated at 480Mbps. That’s about 60 megabytes per second.
USB 3.0 is rated at 5 Gbps. That’s about 640 megabytes per second.
eSATA is rated at 3 Gbps and 6 Gbps. That’s about 373 and 750 megabytes per second.
Firewire is rated at 3 Gbps (400) and 6 Gbps (800). That’s about 373 and 750 megabytes per second.
Thunderbolt is rated at 10 Gbps per channel (x2). Thunderbolt 2 raises that value to 20 Gbps over a single channel. Thunderbolt 3 doubles the bandwidth again to 40 Gbps.
Ethernet is rated at 100 Mbps

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